to Peking Peking, Aug. 3.
Mr. Yoshizawa, Japanese Minister to Peking, who has for some time past been on a visit to Tokyo, returned to his post here at 10 'o'clock this morning. Interviewed /by a representative of the Eastern News Agency, the Japanese Minister made a statement as follows:
The Russo-Japanese Conference will probably be re-opened either fon the Sth or the Gth instant subject to arrangements with M. Karakhan. The policy of the present Cabinet of Japan towards Soviet Russia, is, in my opinion, not of a firmer nature than that adopted by its predecessor: but it appears that the prospect of the forthcoming negotiations is not 30 bright, though it is rather premature to harbour any pessimistic view in this respect. So far T am concerned. I am not yet in position to forecast the prospect the negotiations until I have had interviews with M. Karakhan, While in Mukden on my way to Peking, I had a brief interview lasting only 20 minutes with Marshal Chang Tso-lin, on account of his toothache. The question of raising the status of the Japanese Legation in Peking to Embassy is now under consideration by the Tokyo Government.
Peking, Aug. 4.
The first sitting of the Russ panese conference since the rival here of Mr. Yoshizawa, Japai ese Minister in Peking, was held the offices of M. Karakhan to-da, Insting from 4.0 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. In the course of the sitting, Yoshizawa submitted to the Sovis Envoy a proposition by the Tokyo} Government for the settlement of Problems pending between the twa countries. It is expected that the delegates of the two countries will continue their sitting to-morrow: afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Japanese Legation.—Eastern News Agency.
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